"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Drink, Sex, Cigarettes
Ford Cortina household pets
Bombs? War? Famine? Death?
An apathetic public couldn t care less
The Public watches ITV
Reads The Sun drinks cups of tea
Two-star family stay content
Their lives controlled by parliament
Well daddy's lost his job again
Because he never had no brain
He only lives to watch TV
His life controlled by apathy
The Russians seem so far away
The government seems to be OK
The papers never mention war
'cause the people that they cater for have got:.
The things that you never knew were there
Or was it that you didn't care
The biggest problem face to face
An apathetic human race
Ford Cortina household pets
Bombs? War? Famine? Death?
An apathetic public couldn t care less
The Public watches ITV
Reads The Sun drinks cups of tea
Two-star family stay content
Their lives controlled by parliament
Well daddy's lost his job again
Because he never had no brain
He only lives to watch TV
His life controlled by apathy
The Russians seem so far away
The government seems to be OK
The papers never mention war
'cause the people that they cater for have got:.
The things that you never knew were there
Or was it that you didn't care
The biggest problem face to face
An apathetic human race
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